Synthesia moves beyond AI video into live roleplay coaching for the corporate-training market

On July 22, 2026, Synthesia launched Roleplay Sessions, an interactive product where employees practice high-stakes conversations — sales pitches, performance reviews, layoffs, customer complaints — against an AI avatar that talks back and scores them against a rubric. It is the first release under a new Sessions platform the company plans to extend to job interviews and candidate screening.

What it means AI-training vendors are shifting from selling content generation to selling scored practice — proof the skill transferred — a template every learning-and-development buyer and AI-content vendor will now be measured against.